AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Core i5-4590

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-4590

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 2.71 slightly less expensive

$ 100.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

2241 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

4060 points

22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

1725 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

1656 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

44.58 points

26% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

3116 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

1106 points

135% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

3165 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

1144 points

149% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

Identical

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

84 W

13% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

681st of 1,089

674th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-8300 vs Core i5-4590 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4590 beats the FX-8300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8300 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the FX-8300 has more threads. In terms of clock speed, the FX-8300 and Core i5-4590 are identical in this regard.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the FX-8300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.